September 25 - Definition and Overview

September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years). There are 97 days remaining.

Events

• 275 - M. Claudius Tacitus appointed Roman emperor by the senate.
• 303 - On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona was beheaded in Amiens, France.
• 1066 - Battle of Stamford Bridge, marking the end of the Viking era.
• 1396 - Ottoman Emperor Beyazid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis
• 1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached the Pacific Ocean
• 1555 - The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
• 1690 - "Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick", the first newspaper published in the Americas, published for the first and only time.
• 1789 - The Bill of Rights passes the U.S. Congress
• 1804 - The Teton Sioux (a subdivison of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Corps of Discovery as a toll for moving further upriver.
• 1846 - American forces led by Zachary Taylor captured the Mexican city of Monterrey.
• 1890 - Yosemite National Park established in California.
• 1912 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism founded in New York,_New York.
• 1955 - The Royal Jordanian Air Force was founded.
• 1957 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas is integrated through the use of United States Army troops
• 1962 - The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria was formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas was elected President of the provisional government.
• 1978 - PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California resulting in the deaths of 144 people.
• 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was the 102nd Justice sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first woman to hold the office.
• 1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war (because of time-zone differences, the date was Sept. 25 in the West, and Sept. 26 in the Soviet Union)
• 1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums was closed in Ireland
• 1998 - A Pauknair BAE146 crashes into hillside in Morocco killing 38.
• 2003 - Magnitude 8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaido, Japan.

Births

• 1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1408)
• 1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
• 1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (d. 1764)
• 1725 - Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, automobile pioneer
• 1862 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
• 1866 - Thomas Morgan, geneticist (d. 1945)
• 1897 - William Faulkner, novelist (d. 1962)
• 1903 - Mark Rothko, painter (d. 1970)
• 1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, composer (d. 1975)
• 1917 - Johnny Sain, baseball pitcher
• 1918 - Phil Rizzuto, baseball announcer
• 1920 - Sergei Bondarchuk, actor (d. 1994)
• 1922 - Hammer DeRoburt, first president of Nauru (d. 1992)
• 1926 - Aldo Ray, actor (d. 1991)
• 1927 - Sir Colin Davis, English conductor
• 1930 - Shel Silverstein, humorist, author (d. 1999)
• 1931 - Barbara Walters, broadcaster
• 1932 - Glenn Gould, pianist, composer (d. 1982)
• 1933 - Hubie Brown, basketball coach, television analyst
• 1936 - Juliet Prowse, actress, dancer (d. 1996)
• 1938 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland
• 1943 - Robert Gates, fifteenth Director of Central Intelligence
• 1944 - Michael Douglas, actor, producer
• 1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, model
• 1951 - Mark Hamill, actor
• 1952 - Christopher Reeve, actor (d. 2004)
• 1958 - Michael Madsen, actor
• 1961 - Heather Locklear, actress, model
• 1962 - Aida Turturro, actress
• 1965 - Scottie Pippen, basketball star
• 1968 - Will Smith, actor, rapper
• 1969 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer
• 1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress
• 1970 - Dean Ween, musician ("Ween")
• 1971 - John Lynch, American football player
• 1971 - Hal Sparks, actor
• 1975 - Declan Donnelly, English television presenter
• 1975 - Matt Hasselbeck, American football quarterback
• 1976 - Chauncey Billups, basketball player

Deaths

• 1066 - Harald III of Norway, at the Battle of Stamford Bridge
• 1086 - William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine
• 1333 - Prince Morikuni, 9th Kamakura shogun of Japan (b. 1301)
• 1506 - Philip I of Castile
• 1534 - Pope Clement VII
• 1825 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician († 1879)
• 1849 - Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer
• 1867 - Oliver Loving, Texas pioneer, rancher
• 1970 - Erich Maria Remarque, author
• 1979 - Tapio Rautavaara, athlete, actor, singer
• 1980 - John Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin)
• 1980 - Lewis Milestone, film director
• 1983 - King Leopold III of Belgium
• 1984 - Walter Pidgeon, actor
• 1987 - Mary Astor, actress
• 1987 - Emlyn Williams, actor
• 1996 - Nicu Ceausescu, Romanian politician, son of Nicolae Ceausescu
• 1999 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, science fiction author
• 2000 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
• 2003 - Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician, member of the Governing Council
• 2003 - Franco Modigliani, economist
• 2003 - George Plimpton, American Renaissance man
• 2003 - Edward Said, professor at the New York Columbia University, proponent of Palestinian rights

Holidays and observances

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